I think people are totally missing my point which is that I purchased what was billed as the simplest drum machine on the market. There should have been a footnote that added “unless you want to add more beats, then it gets complicated”. What attracted me to this pedal was that I could lay down the drum track for my songs and hit the footswitch where I wanted the fills without having to program anything. If I had wanted to spend days watching YouTube instructional videos I’d have kept my Boss drum machine and watched videos about how to program that. Not like learning a new piece of software was something I had never done (worked in accounting for a fortune 500 company so change was the only constant) but I didn’t want to spend my time learning a program and trying to make it work in Linux at this time and I got what I needed. This thing totally caught me off guard because I thought purchased beats would come on pre-loaded cards and that the software was only necessary for altering beats and compiling playlists. Come to find out when I started looking into it that it went much deeper than YouTube videos like the one entitled “Hate drum machines? - here is the answer” led me to believe. Add Linux to the equation and the fact that old retired guys don’t self learn from videos without some IT person walking around helping like they used to do at work and it was shaping up to be a blood bath for Jay if he had to field all the questions I was going to have. I think it worked out for the best, he won’t get 100 questions and I have what I need. Over 100 new beats where I can hit the footswitch for fills and edit the lead in out and either end by pressing the pedal twice or fade the song out in my software. I mean, that’s literally all I wanted was some more beats to choose from and now I have that.
I’m kind of surprised that I have taken flak for everything from not wanting to learn the software all the way up to ditching my OS. I mean, what the heck? I purchased a Beatbuddy and pedal and new beats, isn’t that the whole point for me to spend money and I did that.